Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries
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- Edition number and title :Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 April 2022
- ISBN 9780198832287
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages494 pages
- Size 240x160x28 mm
- Weight 800 g
- Language English 264
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Short description:
This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specialized English wordlists.
MoreLong description:
This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languages that gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, and culturally significant lexicographical output before.
The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention to records of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world.
It is a well-researched, well-written, and engaging book that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in this topic.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Conventions
Prologue
The medieval inheritance
The first printed dictionaries of English, French, and Latin
Palsgrave and some contemporaries
The Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot
Polyglot dictionaries
Bilingual dictionaries of vernacular languages in the 1540s and 1550s
Latin dictionaries of the 1550s
The Thesaurus of Thomas Cooper
Elizabethan dictionaries of vernacular languages before Florio
Dictionaries of Latin from 1565 to 1580
Dictionaries of Latin and Greek from 1581 to 1600
Wordlists with Hebrew, Arabic, and Armenian
The dictionaries of Florio and Minsheu
Specialized wordlists of English after the 1530s
Lists of old words
Lists of hard words, and of words in general use
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
